Aren't I a Woman Questions and Response

Questions:

1) Truth is responding to the men whom stated that women couldn't have or deserved equal rights.
2) The examples relate to how women and black people aren't treated with respect. Since she uses these examples and compares them with privileged people's lives, she gives support for how she believes women and blacks aren't treated correctly.
3)The both bring to the reader's attention how everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
4) I probably would have been surprised at the fact that she was publicizing beliefs which could have got her into a lot of turmoil. I may have thought that she would be scared. Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about women and black people deserving their rights.

Response:

When a speaker has to present a speech to any type or size of audience, they have to discover a plan of action on how they will go about trying to persuade their audience into wanting to believe what they are trying to persuade. The speaker has to find out what will grab the audience's attention and make them want to listen to their speech. Sojourner Truth's method of convincing , in " Aren't I a Woman," was to use diction and physical, body movements which contained and brought power into her speech. Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about how women and black people deserved their individual rights.

Sojourner Truth's diction gave off a very direct and serious call towards the audience. When Sojourner Truth was talking to her audience, she used sentences which contained exclamation points at the end of them. "I have plowed, and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me - and aren't I a woman?" (Truth, 423) When Sojourner Truth places this question within her speech, it begins a calling from Sojourner Truth to the audience for a mutual understanding to be formed. Since Sojourner Truth is asking the audience a question, she is interacting with her audience and shows them that she cares about each and everyone of their opinions. "Look at me! Look at my arm!" (Truth, 423) She is asking the audience to do her favor. In doing so, she is forcing the audience to now interact back with her. When someone asks anyone to do them the simple task of looking at their arm, the person being asked will usually feel obligated to at the least give the person acknowledgment for what was aked of them. Even though her diction may be a pretty powerful device, how she uses her body to interpret her message to her audience is also as strong as well.

Sojourner Truth's bodily movements help her convince the audience to believe what she believes by giving her audience a visual of how she feels on the matter. "And she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power." (Unknown, 423) In the simple action of flexing her arm, she was able to convey to the audience how powerful she was even though women were classified as weak individuals. She gave proof that women were not as weak as they were supposedly thought to be. Through body motions, she was able to convey her message.

Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about women and black people deserving their rights. She found her way of conveying her message successfully.